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Re: Reality Check: How are gasoline prices in your area?

Well that is pretty telling. Apparently as we waged war in the middle east where not all but a substantial enough proportion of crude comes from to change world price.

I wonder from looking at past and future whether we are topping out on the cycle and prices will dive as the economy comes back to life between 2014 and 2016 as was originally predicted at the outset of the economic bust? OR if prices will continually climb on the real or perceived idea that the resource is running out?

Thanks Opi...

P.S. It would appear that at the end of GWB's run of things it was around 4 a gallon and had been climbing since 2000 from that 1.80 region mentioned previously. Hmmm

It couldn't coincide with the administration?

Nahhhhh

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Re: Reality Check: How are gasoline prices in your area?

Price over at the beach is still over four -- $4.16.

They'll probably drop to $3.91 or so next shipment.

"Thirty-one* states allow all qualified citizens to carry concealed weapons. In those states, homosexuals should embark on organized efforts to become comfortable with guns, learn to use them safely and carry them. They should set up Pink Pistols task forces, sponsor shooting courses and help homosexuals get licensed to carry. And they should do it in a way that gets as much publicity as possible. "

Re: Reality Check: How are gasoline prices in your area?

The eia.gov website now says the price is $3.437 per gallon of regular which is considerably higher from what is it here locally.

Since the Obama administration has "injected Obama" in many of the ".gov" sites -- I now question information on all gov sites and that's very sad.

JayHawk - congrats on being able to have a drink during happy hour now in Kansas -- maybe someday you'll be able to enjoy a non-3.2% beer.

LOL.. I notice you didn't make mention of the fact that the FACTUAL evidence proves your previous statement wrong. I have been enjoying non 3.2% beer since I arrived here. Have all the liquor stores been breaking the law and I am complicit?

(you know the 1.78 story and the evidence that shows Bush drove the price consistently through the roof while he presided over the economy. Not that Presidents have much to do with either but since it was your argument)

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Re: Reality Check: How are gasoline prices in your area?

Originally Posted by vulgar_newcomer

They can say whatever they want. The reality is they sign the bill of lading when they get a load of gasoline and they are very much removed and non-educated how or where there gasoline came from. I don't care what they tell you.
A small retail owner hasn't a clue to how or what they got ,.......... you know what they know is the price they pay and thats all.

Commonly the small station owner will order more 87 octane then they can hold. Many small stations have 4,000 tanks. They will order 3,800 gallons of 87 but the tank will only hold 1,750 because they didn't sell enough. They order the lower grade gas on purpose.
Then they want the transport driver to dump the excess into the 89.92, 93+ tank because 87 grade is cheaper. They know most truck drivers are not paid by the hour and by the load if the driver is stuck with 2,000 gallons of 87 that won't fit in ma & pas tank because on purpose they order to much , well shit the driver must peddle that 87 to other stations before he gets his next paying load meaning he isn't making money.
...of course ma & pa make money because they got 87 octane dumped into the hi-test tank for a much higher retail price. All illegal and the driver would be fired, but all very common. Few states test the octane in gasoline.

I Lived in Atlanta over a decade ago when gas was .99-cents a Gallon..A friend of a friend worked @ a popular station called Quick Trip..He told us all Gas stations buy the same gas from the same well and we shouldnt buy into the hype that some Gas stations sell "Super-duper-gas"...He said some stations will not order new gas if they don't have enough traffic to sell what they have in the ground....So the Gas will sit..Stations like QT have high costumer flow so they have to buy more Gas to meet demands....

Hearing what he said made sense...

Originally Posted by JayHawk

Well you will have to work with me but I go visit my Mother and take care of my house every four to six weeks there in Cincy

Not a problem..When I want to make something happen I make it happen...

Re: Reality Check: How are gasoline prices in your area?

Originally Posted by MisterMajestic

I Lived in Atlanta over a decade ago when gas was .99-cents a Gallon..A friend of a friend worked @ a popular station called Quick Trip..He told us all Gas stations buy the same gas from the same well and we shouldnt buy into the hype that some Gas stations sell "Super-duper-gas"...He said some stations will not order new gas if they don't have enough traffic to sell what they have in the ground....So the Gas will sit..Stations like QT have high costumer flow so they have to buy more Gas to meet demands....

Hearing what he said made sense...

All of them? Shell and Texaco still claim they have their own special formulas. I know their gas comes in trucks with their names. Chevron sometimes get a Chevron-labeled truck and sometimes a blank one.

"Thirty-one* states allow all qualified citizens to carry concealed weapons. In those states, homosexuals should embark on organized efforts to become comfortable with guns, learn to use them safely and carry them. They should set up Pink Pistols task forces, sponsor shooting courses and help homosexuals get licensed to carry. And they should do it in a way that gets as much publicity as possible. "

Re: Reality Check: How are gasoline prices in your area?

In town, prices range from $3.79 to $3.82 today.

"Thirty-one* states allow all qualified citizens to carry concealed weapons. In those states, homosexuals should embark on organized efforts to become comfortable with guns, learn to use them safely and carry them. They should set up Pink Pistols task forces, sponsor shooting courses and help homosexuals get licensed to carry. And they should do it in a way that gets as much publicity as possible. "

Re: Reality Check: How are gasoline prices in your area?

Okay that was random. So your reply to Springer assertion that gas prices are 1.89 at the end of Bush's term is that you crap outside? Or Springer craps outside? or last time you crapped outside it was on a bush? My dog does that.

Kuli the bigs just add certain things to their blend. i don't know where they do it specifically, whether it is a additive at the tank prior to fill or if it is at the relatively FEW refineries. It all comes from the same place though. Thats why living straight fucking north of Texas and Louisiana and i was paying higher than Ohio I figured there was something really fucking wrong with our system....

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Re: Reality Check: How are gasoline prices in your area?

No the point is that it has nothing to do with Obama... just as it had nothing to do with Bush... except maybe those teensy little wars and stuff but hey it was probably Obama's fault gas prices rose from the day Bush was elected until he left office....

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Re: Reality Check: How are gasoline prices in your area?

Originally Posted by JayHawk

No the point is that it has nothing to do with Obama... just as it had nothing to do with Bush... except maybe those teensy little wars and stuff but hey it was probably Obama's fault gas prices rose from the day Bush was elected until he left office....

You obviously don't watch FOX News.

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Re: Reality Check: How are gasoline prices in your area?

I was told gas here dropped to $3.59, but when I stopped at a station yesterday it was $3.69 again.

An online article I noticed said oil prices did an upward blip to over $100/bl, but it was brief, and they weren't sure it would do much to gas prices. The thing to watch is Iran: if the ayatollahs start yammering about closing the straits, we'll see $5/gal.

"Thirty-one* states allow all qualified citizens to carry concealed weapons. In those states, homosexuals should embark on organized efforts to become comfortable with guns, learn to use them safely and carry them. They should set up Pink Pistols task forces, sponsor shooting courses and help homosexuals get licensed to carry. And they should do it in a way that gets as much publicity as possible. "

Re: Reality Check: How are gasoline prices in your area?

This afternoon while I was out getting Lunch ALL the Gas stations were in the Twilight Zone...One Station was as low as $2.77, then another one was @ $2.96, then I saw $2.99, then $3.05, then $3.01....

This was the FIRST time I've ever seen a number of stations not quite sure what to price the Gas they already have in the Ground...

Re: Reality Check: How are gasoline prices in your area?

Originally Posted by Jack Springer

The price of gas is all over the place here from $3.05 to $3.27

Not surprising. The only reason it's fairly even here is that one guy owns almost all the gas stations. So everything ion town is like $3.69, but over right at the beach it's $3.99, and where a friend is in the city, he drives by a place where it's $4.07.

Places with little choice are higher.

"Thirty-one* states allow all qualified citizens to carry concealed weapons. In those states, homosexuals should embark on organized efforts to become comfortable with guns, learn to use them safely and carry them. They should set up Pink Pistols task forces, sponsor shooting courses and help homosexuals get licensed to carry. And they should do it in a way that gets as much publicity as possible. "

Re: Reality Check: How are gasoline prices in your area?

Yeah I caught a few games last year and had hella tailgate parties with a game of Giant Jinga that a friend had made... I swear at one game there were more fans watching us finish a 14 foot tall jinga than there were in the stadium... I always liked the Chiefs and hope they pull it together 'cuz what i really like is damn good football... I also wanna see the American Royal and a Sporting KC game this year...

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Re: Reality Check: How are gasoline prices in your area?

It was 359nine when I left my Illinois town late Wednesday night. All across Illinois and Indiana, that was the lowest I saw, and I got 80 miles into Ohio, time to think about filling up. I saw a PILOT (usually one of the "better" prices) for 389nine, which had been the most common price on the trip so far...and across the interchange was a T/A for 355nine!! Guess where I stopped. I'm still running on that "cheap" gas and there is stuff around 370 here in Clarksburg, W. Va. and I'll probably top off before I leave. I was told by an "expert" not to expect 355nine in London, Ohio again on the way home. They probably just hadn't "gotten the call" yet.

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Re: Reality Check: How are gasoline prices in your area?

Originally Posted by frankfrank

It was 359nine when I left my Illinois town late Wednesday night. All across Illinois and Indiana, that was the lowest I saw, and I got 80 miles into Ohio, time to think about filling up. I saw a PILOT (usually one of the "better" prices) for 389nine, which had been the most common price on the trip so far...and across the interchange was a T/A for 355nine!! Guess where I stopped. I'm still running on that "cheap" gas and there is stuff around 370 here in Clarksburg, W. Va. and I'll probably top off before I leave. I was told by an "expert" not to expect 355nine in London, Ohio again on the way home. They probably just hadn't "gotten the call" yet.